There is great reward when we embrace others in need and equip them with skills (not handouts) so that dignity and sustainability can be passed on to others!
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Peris & Ruth
Soon after, Ruth’s son Robert was in a terrible accident. Peris knew that Ruth, as a loving mother, would be there with him. So Peris went to the hospital to console Ruth and to talk to her one more time about changing her ways. This time, Ruth listened and decided to attend an ELI training. At the training center she encountered a place unlike anything she’d imagined. She found people who did not condemn or judge her. She realized she was more than a brewer; she was beloved. Once home, she too destroyed her brewing pots, then built a kale garden and a small baking area. She also helped form a women’s co-op focused on growing and selling potatoes. She always had business acumen, but she now had the skills to extend it beyond moonshine. Instead, she brought a positive light to her family and community.
Under the leadership of dynamic ELI staff, Peris, Ruth, and other transformed women created Women of Change. Through training, coaching, and mentoring, more than 1,350 women have come to ELI for life-altering training and empowerment. Entire villages are now welcoming ELI to facilitate trainings, forums, workshops, and seminars. Key villagers are being selected for additional training and development as emerging leaders so that village-wide transformation comes from within. Lives and villages are truly changing from the inside out.
Recently, Peris completed Bible college. She helped plant a church that now has 7 satellite campuses. She is also the chaplain for the entire Women of Change program. Ruth’s businesses are booming. She is now distributing her baked goods and vegetables across county lines. She was elected a village elder for 8,000 people (a great honor as women rarely hold this role), and she spends hours each day visiting women and brewers, encouraging them to break their chains and step into freedom.
Every Sunday a national television broadcasting company shows a video of Ruth at her home. She shares her personal testimony and gives a tour of her businesses. She points out which buildings used to be her breweries. She points out the window that she and her children used to flee out of when the police raided. She laughs with a twinge of pain when she recalls the chaos of her former life: the hiding, running, lying, sneaking around, etc. She cannot believe how she went from infamy due to her notorious activities to new-found fame as she encourages and motivates thousands and thousands of people. Together she and Peris are adamant about rooting out brewing from Kenya. Combined with ELI's amazing staff, Peris, Ruth, and the 62 other women of change leaders believe that every community can be rid of the devastating poverty caused by brewing.
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Soon after, Ruth’s son Robert was in a terrible accident. Peris knew that Ruth, as a loving mother, would be there with him. So Peris went to the hospital to console Ruth and to talk to her one more time about changing her ways. This time, Ruth listened and decided to attend an ELI training. At the training center she encountered a place unlike anything she’d imagined. She found people who did not condemn or judge her. She realized she was more than a brewer; she was beloved. Once home, she too destroyed her brewing pots, then built a kale garden and a small baking area. She also helped form a women’s co-op focused on growing and selling potatoes. She always had business acumen, but she now had the skills to extend it beyond moonshine. Instead, she brought a positive light to her family and community.
Under the leadership of dynamic ELI staff, Peris, Ruth, and other transformed women created Women of Change. Through training, coaching, and mentoring, more than 1,350 women have come to ELI for life-altering training and empowerment. Entire villages are now welcoming ELI to facilitate trainings, forums, workshops, and seminars. Key villagers are being selected for additional training and development as emerging leaders so that village-wide transformation comes from within. Lives and villages are truly changing from the inside out.
Recently, Peris completed Bible college. She helped plant a church that now has 7 satellite campuses. She is also the chaplain for the entire Women of Change program. Ruth’s businesses are booming. She is now distributing her baked goods and vegetables across county lines. She was elected a village elder for 8,000 people (a great honor as women rarely hold this role), and she spends hours each day visiting women and brewers, encouraging them to break their chains and step into freedom.
Every Sunday a national television broadcasting company shows a video of Ruth at her home. She shares her personal testimony and gives a tour of her businesses. She points out which buildings used to be her breweries. She points out the window that she and her children used to flee out of when the police raided. She laughs with a twinge of pain when she recalls the chaos of her former life: the hiding, running, lying, sneaking around, etc. She cannot believe how she went from infamy due to her notorious activities to new-found fame as she encourages and motivates thousands and thousands of people. Together she and Peris are adamant about rooting out brewing from Kenya. Combined with ELI's amazing staff, Peris, Ruth, and the 62 other women of change leaders believe that every community can be rid of the devastating poverty caused by brewing.
Change the Future
Empowering Villages with Hope!
$25/month or $300/year empowers emerging leaders to impact their villages
(for every 25 people who give $25/month, another village can be empowered)
Ignite World Changers
Empowering Villages with HOPE!
$90 trains a woman to leave illegal brewing
$250 provides a village outreach/evangelism weekend
$1,800 empowers a village cohort to lead a community
$8,000 provides Family HOPE to an entire village
How You Can Impact One Person
$10 provides in-village awareness workshops
$60 provides 5 days of life-skill training
$35 provides a year's worth of coaching & mentoring